Join us for Equality Campaign Training July 11-12 in Orlando.
This intensive two-day training is designed to teach the principles of effective community organizing to activists committed to LGBT equality in Florida
Grassroots organizing experts will lead workshops on:
Reaching People by Telling Your Story
Team Building and Leadership Development
Fundraising
Media Relations
Grassroots Organizing
Creating a Strategic Plan for a Local Campaign (read more)
California Supreme Court Decision May 26, 2009
Equality Florida executive director Nadine Smith made the following statement regarding today's California Supreme Court Decision:
“The outrage, despair and disappointment we feel in the wake of today's decision must be balanced with the resolve that the day will come when marriage equality will be the law of the land. The day will come when we look back in disbelief that there was ever a time when loving couples didn't enjoy the freedom to marry.
While today's news is emotionally devastating, the California Supreme Court decision should not be cause for complete despair to fair-minded Floridians who believe in full equality under the law. Today’s decision answered a narrow legal issue regarding procedures for changing the California Constitution. Far more important are the major political questions that are being answered every day in support of the freedom to marry.
Marriage Equality victories across the country are transforming the national landscape. Iowa, Vermont and Maine have joined Massachusetts and Connecticut as Marriage Equality states. New York, New Hampshire and New Jersey have all made great strides and are poised to achieve marriage equality soon.
How quickly we achieve full marriage equality is up to each of us. We must translate our feelings of outrage today into a long-term commitment to action tomorrow.”
PRESS RELEASE April 1, 2009 Announcing Dani Campbell to be keynoter at “OUTlet: Plugging Young Women into the Arts” Conference AND an amazing list of our sixteen sizzling conference presentations! (more)
Victory In Gainesville
Voters Reject Fear Tactics and Discrimination March 24, 2009
(GAINESVILLE, FL) Equality Florida joins with local leaders in Gainesville and fair-minded people across the state and nation in celebrating today's decisive victory over discrimination and fear embodied in Gainesville Charter Amendment 1.
Voters rejected the amendment by a vote of 58% to 42%. If passed, Charter Amendment 1 would have repealed existing civil rights protections for Gainesville's gay and transgender community.
For over a year, backers of the amendment have waged a fear-based campaign filled with outright lies and media campaigns that dehumanized gay and transgender people. Specifically, these extremists drew a target on the backs of transgender people with bigoted messages intended to instill fear in the hearts of Gainesville citizens.
Led by Equality Is Gainesville's Business, a coalition of local, state and national organizations worked together to stop discrimination from being legalized in Gainesville. (more)
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